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3 hours ago, GokhanEser said:
There is no problem when text align-left but, I can't give space when text align-right.
Please enable Text->Show special characters. I can't tell from your screencast whether these are all separate lines or whether this is one paragraph.
If it is one paragraph you shouldn't be able to indent your text on either side of the text box.
If these are independent lines then this behaviour is consistent with how inDesign works as well.
EDIT:
Sorry, designer doesn't not have that option (Show Special Characters). But if you have Publisher you could try to open it in Publisher and then my suggestion of enamelling special characters would shed some more light on it.
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25 minutes ago, David Kadavy said:
Is there a way to import so that existing styles that I have designed within Publisher will automatically be applied to what I import?
Your best bet at the moment is to use Find and Replace facility from within Publisher to find styles you assigned in a Word processing app and replace it with styles you created in Publisher. Unless you have hundreds of styles this should not be that much of a problem.
Publisher is not smart enough to assign styles available in Publisher with the style names imported from external sources. I hope you are aware that Publisher can import .docx files as well.
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28 minutes ago, David Kadavy said:
After formatting an entire 60,000 word book in my word processing program, I'm supposed to go through it line by line to add the proper styles – essentially formatting the entire thing again? No way!
If you formatted your document using Paragraph Styles and Character Styles you don't need to do it again.
All styles are copied over to Publisher and you can continue editing your project from there.
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3 hours ago, tsivadharshan said:
But it will be awesome if we can combine those files and send it out as one file, a .aflibrary for example, that when loaded, loads up the .afassets, .afpalatte & more at once.
That's a great suggestion.
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Often corrupted fonts can be a cause of that.
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17 minutes ago, irakmarin said:
I just can't export to PDF in Publisher
It's a long shot but restarting the computer may solve the problem.
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6 minutes ago, thadeusz said:
But it's really difficult to describe problems exactly.
In that case how are we to talk about it and offer any assistance or even learn from your experience if things cannot be fleshed out first.
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4 hours ago, feste said:
For me, style management is a really fundamental issue, which still prevents me from managing a job in Publisher. The style that activates to a certain glyph or a certain sequence of elements... nested styles, grep styles, or any other shape you can invent to handle the same issue is an essential element. There are no problems for simple texts, as long as you have a title and text with some italics, but it's never that simple. I encourage Affinity to take this approach. It doesn't have to be ghreous or nested style, but to have the same effect. I can't wait to use Publisher without limitations. Unfortunately yesterday for this reason I had to redo a work that became unmanageable and very long without a programmed management of styles. As soon as I can gladly use Affinity programs and I always try to see if I can do what I have in mind with Affinity.
Unless you post examples of where Publishers Styles don't work for you at the moment your post is useless.
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1 hour ago, jblakeharris said:
Is anyone else on Big Sur experiencing issues with the buttons in the titlebar? They aren't responsive for me.
I can confirm that.
Publisher is also affected.
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1 hour ago, Joachim_L said:
Bug? Natural limitation? By design? Worth a feature request?
I managed to put 2 numbers in the circle by manipulating the Positioning and Transform, Baseline in the Character Panel.
I think this should be looked at by the Serif team because clearly there is room for more text in these boxes.
Regards
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3 minutes ago, elk said:
Is there a way? I would be glad to hear about it!
II don't know of a way to search in a selection.
This is an all or nothing action at the moment, I'm afraid.
A workaround is to copy your selection to a temporary document, perform find and replace and paste it back.
We all hope for great improvements in this area in the future.
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1 hour ago, Wosven said:
Don't forget that there's a lot more options in ID, regarding foreign languages, for example, and that's probably why APub is faster since there are less prameters to read and apply to the document.
Undoubtedly that's very true, and I took that into account, but even then the difference in speed is striking.
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3 hours ago, AdamW said:
Import / Export
Just tested Publisher to open a particular IDML file created in inDesign.
Earlier Publisher betas would crash on opening this particular IDML file.
This time Publisher opened it without any problems. I also measured, however imperfectly, the time taken to open this file by both Publisher and inDesign.
Publisher opened that file in 5 seconds whereas inDesign opened it in 53 seconds.
So the improvements are really great. Thank you.
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59 minutes ago, zkarj said:
It is only when applying my Body style that they disappear.
This should be simple.
Did you try to use the following command?
Apply "Your Style" to Paragraphs and Preserve Character Formatting.
Right-mouse click on your paragraph style to get these option:

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1 hour ago, zkarj said:
but that seems like a lot of work
This should not take longer than 2 minutes.
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5 hours ago, zkarj said:
What I am trying to do is paste rich text into my Publisher document and then apply my body style without losing italic and bold text.
I suggest to create Italic and Bold Character Styles (and any other Character Styles that you want to preserve).
Then search for italics, bolds in your text using Find & Replace command in Affinity Publisher and replace them with Italic, Bold Character Styles.
Once you do that you can then start applying your Paragraph Styles to your text and all your italic and bold instances will be preserved.
You can then redefine your Character and Paragraph Styles as you wish.
Regards
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40 minutes ago, PJ JONOTHON said:
Hi can;t find filters on Affinity Design?
You are right. This is only available in Affinity Photo.
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16 minutes ago, PJ JONOTHON said:
I need to remove the white background.
Try
Filters->Colours->Erase White Paper.
It may just work for you.
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6 hours ago, thomaso said:
Just because inDesign doesn't do it this it should not be allowed here.
Not the best grammar in the world. 🙂
What I meant to say was to forget indesign in this instance and keep this feature if it's useful.
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On 6/10/2020 at 11:47 PM, W.Ingendahl said:
I provide about 68 texture macros for Affinity Photo.
Thank you very much indeed.
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2 minutes ago, Wosven said:
The problem with this worflow is a sort of infinite loop
It might seem like it but it's not.
You are embedding it as read only once.
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7 hours ago, Gabe said:
Most likely, the fix would be to stop a document from being embedded/linked into itself.
If there is an issue with this workflow it should be fixed. It would be a great pity if this was disallowed/disabled.
There is nothing wrong with this workflow. The document on those pages is not being edited but simply viewed which means it is Read Only.
Just because inDesign doesn't do it this it should not be allowed here.
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52 minutes ago, MorporkUK said:
Only today, when I opened it, did these problems occur.
Most probably you have enabled Highlight Fields.
Go to Text->Highlight Fields menu option and see whether that is ticked. If it is then untick it if you don't like all fields to be highlighted.
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13 minutes ago, Thomahawk said:
Well, the image says it all
I must be thick but I don't understand what you are trying to accomplish.


Japanese Vertical Text
in Feedback for Affinity Publisher V1 on Desktop
Posted
Thank you @lunde for a very constructive post.